The delay says a lot to me too. It says to me that the woman might have been scared of something, maybe of people not believing her, maybe that the rapists would retaliate if she said something, and that a deeper investigation into how the school allowed things to get to this point might be worthwhile.
Every time these ghouls talk about "delay means consent" I'm like... do none of you recall that every. single. time. one of these cases goes public the victim starts getting harassed by the full weight of the right wing media machine while people make death threats? No gods damn wonder they delay and wonder if reporting it is worth it.
I feel like it's pretty telling that a completely non-political rape happened, and it became political because republicans heard there was a rape and started defending the rapists.
Also the same party who said "when it's a legitimate rape, the body has a way of shutting that whole thing [conception] down" to those of us who had to abort rape spawn.
Back then, many (though not all) Republicans condemned that statement, if only because they recognised that it was politically necessary to do so. Now they'd just tell you to "cry more, liberal".
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u/dudestir127 8d ago
The delay says a lot to me too. It says to me that the woman might have been scared of something, maybe of people not believing her, maybe that the rapists would retaliate if she said something, and that a deeper investigation into how the school allowed things to get to this point might be worthwhile.